[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

I distinctly remember, I think maybe last year, a little after I joined the board; Fish posted something about the movie along the lines of "OOO has this wonderful nuance of toeing the line between never completely condoning greed or a lack of it, which Core completely misunderstands", and... wish I could link to it, but that's pretty much it.

See, you say you don't think you're good at this, but your version of my words is actually more succinct than the real thing was.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Eiji's character is completely out of whack, running around doing a bunch of different part-time jobs in a way that suggests somebody thought that would be his gimmick in the show, and then giving out all the money he makes to random greedy people who ask for it, displaying an absent-minded, naive kind of attitude that is massively at odds with how his character was portrayed on TV from the very start. This is why I can't believe Kobayashi actually provided any significant amount of help. Presumably, Inoue would've at least had scripts for the first few episodes to get a feel for the series anyway, but with direct advice from its writer, it's especially questionable how you could get something this important this wrong. The overall theme of the plot is likewise about Nobu learning to appreciate how much nicer life can be when you don't desire things, which is the kind of black-and-white take on the subject that OOO built its identity around avoiding at all costs. Again, right from the start. Things like the odd premise, I can forgive, but I had completely forgotten how much worse the story here is than that. It's missing everything that was at the heart of OOO.

Feels like an eternity ago I posted that. Good times, the Kobayashi-thon. Less good on that particular day, but still!

I definitely know what you mean about wanting more W in the W and OOO movie, by the way. You'd think doing a movie that's one part W, one part OOO, and one part W+OOO would be simple enough, but Movie War Core misunderstands OOO so badly they couldn't even figure out how the concept of splitting things into thirds works.